Meet your customers where they live with Chris Dix

Guest 

Name: Chris Dix https://www.linkedin.com/in/thoughtpost/ Company: ChatStyle.ai https://chatstyle.ai/ Hosts Brian Doyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandoyl... Robb Rogers: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robb-roge... Tim McNeil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmcneil3/ Sponsors vCIOToolbox: https://vciotoolbox.com OSR Manage: https://osrmanage.com

Chris Dix is the founder of ChatStyle, a software company based in Charlotte, NC, that provides chat and automation solutions for MSPs and their customers. Chris has over 20 years of experience developing software and is a former Microsoft MVP. He is also an author and has spoken at conferences for Microsoft, O'Reilly, ConnectWise, and MSPGeekCon.

3:10 Chris gives an overview of how he started doing MSP. He is a software developer and this gives him the skill set needed in working for MSP. He also discusses what truly is his drive for joining MSP and the challenges he wanted to overcome. 

5:15 Brian mentions that there are a lot of tools available in the market with a variety of functions, Chris pitched that his starting point was the lack of consistent communication channels for customers and tech team.

12:01 Chris starts talking about the AI function of the tool. 

15:12 Robb asks about PSA integrations with the program. Chris answers ConnectWise and AutoTask to name a few. He also says implementation with Halo and Freshdesk is also ongoing. He also shares some plans they have for this year as well as some improvements, especially on CRM.

18:45 Before closing Robb asked Chris which app has more people, Slack or Teams. Chris explains his answer and shares what struggles and challenges they face to make their program work since these two applications have different focuses.